#9549 NORM 1.5-sof: Keyboard confusion under write activity.

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#9549: Keyboard confusion under write activity.
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           Reporter:  Andy Pei                  |       Owner:  dsd                               
               Type:  defect                    |      Status:  reopened                          
           Priority:  normal                    |   Milestone:  1.5-software-later                
          Component:  write-activity (abiword)  |     Version:  1.5 Software Build os64 aka 10.1.0
         Resolution:                            |    Keywords:                                    
        Next_action:  diagnose                  |    Verified:  0                                 
Deployment_affected:                            |   Blockedby:                                    
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Comment(by Quozl):

 Replying to [comment:5 dsd]:
 > Can't reproduce on os103. The alt-gr key doesn't seem to do anything, in
 any application or context. Is that a bug?

 Reproduced again on build os104.  ''altgr-q'' seems to work for me.  Let's
 explore that.

  * ''altgr'' is a modifier key, it is used like a shift key,

  * in a virtual terminal
  {{{
 showkey
 }}}
  displays keycode 100 for the key,

  * in the Terminal activity,
  {{{
 echo -n <altgr-q> | od -h
 }}}
  displays ''cf 89'', and the glyph ω resembles the latin letter w,

  * in the Terminal activity, running ''xev'' and then pressing the
 ''altgr'' key several times, results in KeyPress and KeyRelease events for
 the keysym ISO_Level3_Shift.

 I wonder if keyboards or /ofw/mfg-data differs between us?  I don't know
 which tags are important, but KL=us, KM=olpc, KV=olpc, L#=J, LA=USA,
 LO=en_US.UTF8, SS=EN.  The keyboards on the B2s here have a greek letter Ω
 (Ωμέγα, omega) on the Q key.

 The symptom also occurs if ''shift-altgr-q'' is used in Write.  It doesn't
 happen if Write is used with a resumed journal entry that was not
 originally infected by the symptom.

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